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Monday, December 05, 2011

Arsenal vs. Manchester United on FOX

From FOX Sports -

FOX SPORTS KICKS-OFF NFC CHAMPIONSHIP SUNDAY

WITH
ARSENAL VS. MANCHESTER UNITED, LIVE!

Match is Second Live & Fifth Overall

Barclays Premier League Event Scheduled on FOX

New York –
The 2011 NFC Championship Game featured the Green Bay Packers and
Chicago Bears, two of the NFL’s iconic franchises. While we’re weeks
from knowing which teams will
meet in the 2012 edition, FOX Sports kicks-off NFC Championship Sunday
featuring two of the world’s iconic soccer clubs meeting in a Barclays
Premier League match live on the network.

FOX Sports presents Arsenal and Manchester United from the Emirates Stadium on
Sunday, Jan. 22 (10:30 AM-1:00 PM ET). Later that day, FOX Sports presents its 18th
consecutive NFC Championship Game (6:30-10:00 PM ET), one of the
highest-rated, most-watched sports events of the year, the winner of
which meets the AFC
Champion in Super Bowl XLVI. FOX Sports’ Barclays Premier League
coverage continues on Super Bowl Sunday,
Sunday, Feb. 5, when the network airs “The Game Before the Game”
featuring Chelsea hosting Manchester United, live from Stamford Bridge
(10:30 AM-1:00 PM ET).

“We
see a tremendous opportunity to broaden exposure in the U.S. for the
world's best soccer competitions,” said FOX Sports Co-President &
COO Eric
Shanks. “We've broken viewership records with each subsequent FOX
broadcast and we are thrilled audiences are responding as we make
matches more widely available.”

FSMG’s
investment in global soccer is clearly expanding. FOX Sports made U.S.
broadcast history this fall airing regular-season Barclays Premier
League matches, a first for US broadcast television. On Sunday, Sept. 18, the network presented Manchester United vs. Chelsea, followed by Tottenham-Arsenal on
Sunday, Oct. 2 and Chelsea-Liverpool on Sunday, Nov. 20.
All three broadcasts were encore offerings which either preceded or
followed the locally televised NFL on FOX game, and came after FOX
Soccer’s live coverage earlier in the day.

FOX’s
broadcast of Liverpool’s 2-1 defeat of Chelsea on Nov. 20 is the
most-watched Barclays Premier League match of the three on the
network, delivering a 1.1 household rating, with 1.67 million total
viewers, according to Nielsen Media Research. Of the five international
soccer matches broadcast on FOX since 2010, only this year’s UEFA
Champions League Final between Barcelona and Manchester
United drew a bigger audience (2.6 million) than Chelsea-Liverpool in
November.

In
October, FOX Sports Media Group acquired the exclusive U.S. media
rights to the FIFA World Cup across all platforms (including
radio) from 2015 to 2022, which includes the 2018 FIFA World Cup and
2022 FIFA World Cup, the 2015 FIFA Women’s World Cup and 2019 FIFA
Women’s World Cup, and other FIFA events.